Monday, December 12, 2005

Blogspot hack: Amazon recommended readings

This hack shows a side-box with a random list of recommended readings from Amazon.It uses your Amazon Associate ID and a list of ASIN/ISBN. The user can go back and forth through the list. You can see it working on the bottom-right of this page.

The parameters in oAMZ are pretty much self explanatory

It actually uses my own Amazon Associate ID, you can tweak it by looking for immeleblogdes-20 and stephahamelim-20

Blogger Beta

Create a new HTML/JavaScript Page Element and give it a meaningful title such as "Recommended Reading". Then copy the code below:

Classic Blogger

This hack shows a side-box with a random list of recommended readings from Amazon.It uses your Amazon Associate ID and a list of ASIN/ISBN. The user can go back and forth through the list. You can see it working on the bottom-right of this page.

Change the sAmazonAssociateID to your own account

Change the list of ASIN/ISBN in asAmazon.

You might want to tweak the colors to your own side design where it says"fAmazon.location.href=..."

fc1=99ddbb // text color

lc1=99ddbb // link color

bc1=223344 // border color

bg1=223344 // background color

You might want to build a sample Product Link at Amazon Associate Central for easier preview and tweaking of the colors.

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